| Miami: A city of
southeast Florida on Biscayne Bay south of Fort Lauderdale. Settled in
the 1870s near the site of a fort built in 1836, it expanded greatly
during the land boom of the 1920s and again after World War II. Today it
is an important resort and cruise center for the Caribbean. Population:
358,548. |
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Florida: A state of
the southeast United States bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf
of Mexico. It was admitted as the 27th state in 1845. The peninsula was
explored by Juan Ponce de León in 1513 and became the center of a
Spanish settlement that included the southeast part of the present-day
United States. Spain finally ceded the area in 1819. Tallahassee is the
capital and Jacksonville the largest city. Population: 13,003,362. |
